The Sun. — London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

iti) o 0 lea 1 for I LO O ' 1 t tig 1 11-a ) 04 The _ at the 11 0 if, f u(' ir 34l fed. , ON'' i. Lei 0 6 ive 3 $t ( 01 bl e t polr d o p dl` C , % ;eh ' f %l cit e ,p.ro tt ,t. 0 d sv."' 0.. ce• v eo i)s° 0 tilile , ; o l doY; (11‘ p )01° 1 4P • crlC °:( o.rt eceie tl 0 15 ' 4 0 c° tV.OO c t4c 0 4 ,10; weol,. or any part of Florida, and doing any Ober act .4 sear. And Tliat St. Marks, being a military post, situated in an immense wilderness, and surrounded by hostile Indians, will tiot be restored until Spain shall sufficiently garrison and cause her authority to be respected in that quarter. - New York - Paper s to the 15th ult. arrived This rn , ()rilili g• They state th at t h e crops h ave f a ll en "ort of an ordinary average, which is attributed to the great drought that had prevailed. ilarnburgh Pap ers arrived last night to the 3d i "st• They contain a sp i r i te d N ote (which will fo:ind in another column), presented by the bpattish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Ame rican Ambassador at Madrid, respecting the oc cupation of Florida by General JACKSON. We stoppedthe Pr e ss on S atur d ay l ast, w i t h- Out a formal notice, for the pleasure of briefly an botincing the flourishing state of the Revenue 1u the following words : We are extremely happy to state that the pro 'lace of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter "di ng this day, is to the amount of 1,700,000/. a'c're than that of the corresponding Quarter of ' tie la " Year. Th e i mprovement in the Customs ttnd Excise amounts to 1,500,0001." Rut We have taken the particulars of this most ittat‘fYing,fact from The New Times of this clay, l i bleb °lir Readers tvill find under the head of CilsltiON JOURNALS. \l 'e have taken this day, from The Morning Chro n i cle, a Letter from Earl BATHURST, addre-ss eil t , tilt lILTDSON LOWR, with the Observations tiv°%).PARTE on that Letter ; but if it were not " r ozlr re spect for that Nobleman, we should nothink any observations of the infamous prisoner Ivnr th notice. H e was stilecl by JOEL BARLow th e grea test b otcher of liberty that ever exist ' " and the American Politician might with troth have ridded, the greatest butcher of man -4' y This ruffi an oug h t to have expiated I.lnormntis and multiplied atrocities on a pub sca ffolrl vet there are ideots in the world who Iris crimes w i t h adm i ration, and pity his I;"3ertt condition, though it has been brought 4P " Ilin) by his own wickedness and folly. To t a t'ch whining ideots we submit the following : - ; )ec tlote of this wholesale murderer, taken from :e,_l4st Number of The Quarterly Review, which tb 4ntilV has peculiar sources of intelligence, and :11ithful in recording it. The anecdote is re " ill a Not e to an admirable Review of the -lennsisteticies and contradictions in the produc ti°ns " ° f Si r ROBERT WILSON. " The fact s .'e ' " 3 lf) S a Y 3 th e R ev i ewer, " is abundantly cu- Z , '.i,4 4 "`i We particularly recommen d i t to dit ion ""1.1. Wresosi for insertion in the next of 144 E P.::atEgyptian Narrati ve . I t was t he tabl e o f an em i nent B anker b y a Qt ii Gentl eman w h o, f or many years, igh place i n t h e serv i ce and con fi APo LEosr, and w h o gave i t , i n t h e sim ,lo'; 4t his h eart, as an instance of the address ""ible firmness of his late Master. Several di both French and English, of the first ‘tii l bea lueti''n, heard hi m, and, we have no doubt, 11. 4 e r test iinollY to the genera l correctness of ii, thi:m tes which follow. --General BUONAPARTE, :hk! C "il . o, had succeeded in quelling a v e r y 111itlitI)1.- insurrection, the s i gna l f or w hi c h had I,‘lt" g.ken horn the Minarets of the ity b the 4 1 : 4ei ns, while professing eat to call, in their y usual tl:rter, the fai t hf ul to their devotions. The bu rl of ihsurgentS were driven into on e o f cil i"f ruch, mosqu es, and obtained qtiartet• onstir- L ri i "g to punislitnent 600 of th e i ; - ringleaders. 'lst e icr t t l Were immediately coertacted to a spa atdti.s en "rt, wh ere they were guarded by French le ' s . L, ,r It At mid n i g h t BUONAPARTE visited them *i)".'". and se l ected fifteen for execution, who e b°4n d~tl tin to sacks and thrown into the r ()r forty sticcessive nights these visits t4i-e rte ' Prince 14_;UGENE and mystlf, h; the narrator, ' fell on out• knees night after 'Ott •, he,. ‘ ll ' l °ling the lives of these wretches, but j oi ." it WaS absolutely necessary, and remained intiveahle.' , b°l ` l. OP 1-IUNT INGDON.-IVe inserted on fPfuld,' ia 't a paragraph taken from T he 1),.-i7)7, Corre a respectable Evening Paper, published ‘ l', l -Nt , p"' w hich stated, that " the ATT,ORNEY7 1?•11glitlid has declared HANS FRANC? , 'l' v itt l ‘s 1 0 be now Earl at IIuNTINGDoN, &c• (.4N1,1`1%4e since heard, that though the ATTORNEY it. t: 'nay have given his opinion on the sines proFer place, yet it is impossible that, r that opinion may be, it could have been ti ntv,, lil t e . d ill au authorized way in any Newspaper, se I respectable. tvt„...`l".id liritish Officers are now in London who r"Pas4l(..l7.,"ttached to the Patriots in the Ca y have visited this country tor the }errht, `'"'e uf pi., • • to s e „ t t c lasing store s and aninninitton. .n Atignstura, the lit ad•tpiarters of that teadiness for the opening of the cantpaign. The American Papers have ot t slated the arrival of Sir G. M`Gne sty, th e (),. •"l •tutokt). That Oflicer, we tinder icltt moment, in Loutlun.—(Eegi'sh- FOR THE sus. Or IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, AND THE ACT OF INSOLX NCY. LETTER 17. If credit be given only to a debtor who has property to answer it, his person will be consi dered as productive of nothing, and the serving him with process, wic hoot arresting him in the first instance, might recover the creditor's money, his property being much more responsible than his body. Bit creditors in general are gamblers, and they sport within the law. Honesty is over their Moots more than in their shops, and their motto is, that " there is Ilf; friendship in trade." Their customers are their bank, which when broken, they shelter themselves under the statutes of bankruptcy and insolvency, having bestowed less attention to their debtors means of payment, than the figure they will make in their day-book and ledger. Other gamblers sport for the amusement of the game, more than lucre (black-legs except ed), and they are goveined by HONOUR, which they hold more sacred than HONESTY, though these two words are derivatively the same, with this difference only, the civil law compels the pay ment of debts contracted for value, and the law of honour requires the payment of debts waged in her forum. On default of the former, the gam bling debtor is liable to imprisonment ; and on default of the latter, the gambling loser is ex cluded the tables of play. Such has been the conduct of some men in legal trade, where we look fur simple honesty, distin goished front honour, that they have sent goods home to a customer by a sheriff's officer, rho on delivery and non-payment for them has arrested them in the moment. One in particular was is tailor. lie swore to a debt for goods sold, and arrested his customer the instant he lord tried them on, which on making the oath and issuing the writ were nut delivered. The defendant pato the motley and three guineas costs, rasher th a n be troubled with disputing such infamous con ,duct, by a man tvlo) soon after helped himself to some silver spoons at a fire, for which be was transported. What was this but oppression, un der the statute of Geo. 1. which was meant for the contrary. It may be said, that if a man be aggrieved by the abuse of this act, he may indict his com plainant for perjury. Not so. No indictment can be maintained ; as the deponent believes what he swears, and not wilfully and knowingly that it is false ; but suppose his oath be true, all the time between the arrest in consequence and trial he is deprived of his liberty, if lie cannot find b ail, or taken to a lock-up house, there to sleep a n'ght or two under bars and bolts, before he can be li berated, it bail be ready ; and not then, if there he any other action to detain him, but on equal condition of bail. Previously to the statute which required the true cause of action to be stated iu the writ on eolith airy one should be arrested, creditors in their evil spirit often arrested their debtors on writs which stated a false one, when for want of bail, they were obliged to summon their malig nant complainants before a judge at his chambers, to slaw the true. If they failed in this by not swearing to their demands, the defendants were discharged; but in the mean time they were in cus tody, and summonses were no less frequent to sbew cause why prisoners should not be dis charged on cotillion' appearance to the action. This work of deceit contituted till the act of Geo. 1., as premised. If the first process against the person had never beet, issued, but in cases where notice on the original mandate was disregarded, this Act and the Act of Charles 11. would not have been necessary. They wete intrinsically good, and their principle without fault. It is their perversion, and the foul use subsequently made of them, that causes complaint. They leave the liberty of the person not sufficiently protected ; and under both attornies, sheriffs' officers, theirfo/- lowers, jailors, and their hangers on, are the chief gainers ; while the general advantage is sacrificed, I and liberty disgraced, at the expense of their rash and inconsiderate employers. W e have had the experience of near a century since the Act of Geo. I. passed, but what is the amount ? It has convinced us that' a man when arrested knows the cause by the affidavit and writ, but not that the number of revengeful creditors is lessened, or that their regard for au oath is at all times so strict as to make them swear truly to their demands. Were it nevertheless otherwise, their oaths are at best a de parte evidence, on one side only, and partially for themselves. Under the arrests of their supposed debtors, it operates as au EXECUTION before JUDGMENT. Let a needy ne cessitous luau, from whatever cause, be thus at rested for what he cannot pay, be may then . either be pillaged of the trifle he may have about him by the sheriff's officer and his men, aa the price of avoiding a prison, into which he must inevitably go ; or it he be destitute, he may he conducted to a spoogino-house, dark and un wholesome, where he may be subject to extor tion, in spite of the statute made to prevent it ; and at last hurried away to the county jail, ther e to die, or lead a lif e o f wretchedness.. 'But if his condition should he less perilous, and some kind hand enable him to di sc h arge his debt, how great are his sufferin gs ! His imprisonment and expenses, under the accursed names Of office fees, garnish, civility money, &c. are altogether a punishment without a crime. Should he be unable to obtain his discharge, he must droopingly await the event of a supersedeas, or the non-prosecutio n of cre ditors, or becom e an object of the Lords' Act, for the sake of the daily sixpenres, and lastly of an Act of Bankruptcy or Insolvency; or live in prison on the bounty of his friends, until death may release him from their commiseration, anal the rigour of those creditors ? who, by means of the present practice of arrests, have made his life hateful, it not iusupportable. AN OLD BARRISTER, of the Inner Temple. (Tu be Continued.) cha c ttio Ives, ati °l3 un til I s P°l l I ° it ePI O f t lies 4 Ilief ner elf ela 'l' o ofer THE MARKETS. e° RN EXCHANGE, Ocr. Io.—We had a middling supply o f Wheat this morning from Essex and Kent, which sold oit 1 "Ich the same terms as this day we ; the supply bath of B"dey and Oats being largP, Barley was dull, and Oats Is. per quarter cheaper; Malt is steady; Pease and Beans con tinue at our last quoted prices Foreign Wheat -62 e. 70s. Fine ditto - - 755 . 80s• English Wheat - 655. 705. Fine ditto - - 805. 88s. Old ditto - - - —s. —s• Rye Fine ditto - - - —s. —s. Barley 42R. 495. Fine ditto - - stls. 60s. New ditto - - -60 s. 70s. Malt - - -70 s. 80s. Fine ditt o - -84 s• 945• whitel'ease ;boilers) 70s. 755. Fine ditto - bss. 90s. Grey Pease - - - 455. 60s• Fine Grey Pease - 635. 70s• 'Dick 645. 725. Old ditto - - - —s. —s. Small 'lick Beans -80 s. 85s. Old ditto - - - —c. —s. Feed Oats - - -30 s. 32.5. Fine ditto - - - 345. 365. Poland ditto - - 345. 38s. Fine ditto - - - 355. 40s. Potatoe ditto - - 375.425. Rape seed 4GI. 521. per last. Fine Flour - -70 i. Seconds - -60 s. 655. SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCT. 19. (To sink the Wirt! ; per Stone of Bibs.) nevi' 4s Od. to ss. ed. I Veal 4s. Od. t o ss. 6si Mutton Od. to ss. 6d , I Pork 4s. Od. to ss. Gd CATTLE AT MARKET.. Beasts 2760 Sheep and Lambs ..16,r,;0 I Calves HAY AND STRAW P E R LOAD. Hay.... Z 5 00to k 8 8 0 Clover.. ,(6 00 to ,c 9 10 0 Straw ,0 5 o tc ks U U Our Port Letters of this day contain nothing of i►iterest. THE THRATRR.-After MASSINGF.R'S Vigorous Comedy of A New Way to Pay Old Debts, in which Mr. KRAN performed Sir Giles Overreach, the Farce of The Weathercock introduced u Mr. M'CARTHY from the Cobourg Theatre, in the part of Tristram Fickle. He does not want spirit and bustle, but the part has been so ably p,r formed by his predecessors that EIC could not but suffer much by comparison, and, therefore, we shall spare ourselves front tiny comments on the subject. The Bombay Courier of May 30 has come to hand. The fortress of on the banks of the Nerbodda, has fallen to the force under Gen. MARcHALL, without any material loss on the part Of the British. A vessel arrived on Saturday in the River from St. Petersburgh, in nine days. Tallow continued to increase in price in Russia, and was mud) higher there than in England. The contribu tions to the voluntary loan amounted to 21 mil• lions of rubbles. The exchange had fallen about two per cent. the price of the ruble being 12i. Sir VICARY GIBBS is extremely unwell, and little, if ally, hopes are entertained of his being able to resume his seat as Chiet Justice of the Common Pleas. Letters were received in town on Thursday from the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE?. Preparations are making in the stores cf the Storekeeper-General of the Army here, to re ceive the camp equipage and other articles that will be brought to England by our Army of Oc cupation. Such of the regiments as are quarter ed to the westward ut Cambray, it is expected, will be embarked at Havre-de-Grace, and land at this'place.—(Portsmouth Paper.) On Saturday, at three o'clock, the Archdnl , :e 111AXIMILIAN Was introduced to the ParricE Rts- GENT at Carlton-House, upon his arrival in Ett4- land. The Archduke is in England incog. and travels by the name of Count Novzt.LAtto. The Liverpool Courier says, " our distinguished Representative, the Right Hon.GeottGE CANNING, has, we understand, sent a donation of 20 guineas in aid of the theatrical fund lately established in this town." The shock of an earthquake at Palermo on the Sth ult. happily did no damage. On the saute d.y, atter a long continuance of tine weather, there was a violent tempest, accompanied by rain. ROCHESTER, OCT. 9.—Vesterday Colonel Sir ‘VM. CONCREVE, Bart. arrived here, and Admiral Sir GEolloe GocknuaN, with another Mewber of the Admiralty Board, and dined with Admiral Sir Jowl and Lady Goße, and the Captains be longing to the ships in the Medway. This morn ing those Gentlemen, accompanied by the Admiral, Sir Robert Barlow, the residont Commissioner at the Dock-yard, the Surveyor of the Navy, and other Officers, proceeded on boat d the Liffey 50 gun ship, the lion. Captain Duncan, C. B. for the purpose of inspecting the magazine of that ship, which has been fitted up on an entire new prin ciple, to guard against accidents, and render the stowage of the gimpo%vd er barrels mote safe and commodious, with which they appeared highly pleased. Atter devoting some time to this exa mination, they proceeded to the Tribune frigate, Captain Willoughby, C. B. on a similar inspect tint), and then to the Level► 20 gun ship Captain Bartholomew, C. B. The inspection having ter minated, the party landed in the Duck-yard ; when partaking of 'a slight repast they proceeded to. town. Tlie ships fitting at Chatham are, the HOn. Captain Duncan • 'Tribune• Captain Willoughby ; Euryaltis, Captain Huskisson ; Leven, Captain Bartholomew ; Sophie, Captain Sir IVilliath Wiseman, and the Nor►humberland, Captain Sir Michael Seymour, Bart. We ai•e requested by Mr. Beerrnitm, the Se cretary of the Eagle insurance Company, to state, that Policies expiring at :Michaelmas may be re newed within fifteen days from that period, either in Cornbill or the Haymarket, where Annuities are granted and purchased, and every description of Life and Fite Insurance effected on the most equitable tertns-.—N. B An allowance for rent of premises destroyed by Fire, as heretofore. A man, who had been three or tour days in the house of Mr. Slack, in \Voingate, went to bed apparently in good health on Monday sennight, but was found u corpse'tbe next morning. He had bills about hint which purported to be of more than 1001. value, but the real worth of which did not afflotint to us many shillings. Nearly the whole were suspected to be forgeries, and this opinion received confomation from subsequent enquiry. There being no marks of violence on his person, nor reason to suspect that he other wise hastened his dissolution, the Jury brought in their verdict,' Died by the visitation of God." (Sheffield 4dvertiser.) MURDER CAUSED BY JEALOUSY. A German, of the name of Thomas Losch, about forty-tour years of age, formerly of the tl , itd battalion of the GOth regiment of foot, but new an out-pensioner of Chelsea College, perpetrated a dreadful murder on Friday tight, on Mary Ann, his wile, to whom be was married about two years since at Chelsea Chinch. She is represent ed to he about '27 years of agt., was tali, and scent ed to be a woman of prepossessin4 appearance. Richard Maybank, constable of the night at the watch-house in Simmond's-street, Sloane-stptaie, gave the following account of the transaction, as tar ti) it had come to his knowledge : About eight o'clock on Friday night, the pri , Boner was brought to the .vateh-house, and.wi th out the slightest promise or suggestion, the pri soner admitted having committed the act with la knife which he had thrown away, opposite the Three Crown,. He said his reason was, that he saw something in his wire's coodoei tn.it he did not like. The wound was six inches long front the abdomen upwards, and twarlv the whole of her intestines were protruding through the tsammi. —The cries of the filifOrtilUAte creature were too appalling to be described. She was taken to St. George's Hospital in pain the most excruciating, and every thing that skill and humanity could sug gest was done for her, but she did not long sur vive. During the time Maybank was at the hos pital, a woman n3tned liarrotiv b+ ought witness the knife he had produced helot e the Magistrate, which she had found near the spot described by the prisoner. Witness then returned to the watch house, and before he produced the !mite to the prisoner, asked aim what kind of a knife it was he had perpetrated the act with .? 'the prisaner replied, that it was a long knife with a white handle. Mayhank then produced it, and showed it to him, and the prisoner said—". 1 ant sure that is the knife." He was then locked tip for the night, and in the mottling, it being understood that the untottllilale woman Was dead, preluira. tiOUS Were made to COnVey hial to Queen-sTiare for examination. While he was being conveyed to the office, he stated, that he overheard a conversation which took place in the Coach and Horses pohlic house between his wite and a man with whom he strongly suspected she had indulged in acts of concubinency. In the course of this conver sation, she said she would go home with him (the prisoner) to No. I, Exeter-street (where it: appeared they lived), and wait with him until be was asleep; and then she would get ut► and re turn and continue with him (the person wiilx whom she held the conversation) all night ; and that he, the prisoner, having a knowledge of her infidelity, was determined to thwart them in their criminal views, and hence he had resoled upon the commission of this barbarous deed. It vas also mentioned, that he had conteir►- plrated the pe►formance of the horrible act for nearly a fortnight. He is abort rive feet seven or eignt inches high, and very fat froit► being well looking. After the examination, he was placed in a coach, and escorted to Tot Prison, till the vet - • diet of a Coroner's Jury shall be know:). Another account says, that the perpetrator of this horrid act was a Serjeant in the 60th regiment of toot ; and having been a cotssi(Jerable number of years abroad, t rewar:led with a petisinn horn Chelsea Hospital. Some time since be w,s mairieu in Chelsea Church to the deceased : he lived with his Wife but a few months, when find ing that his pension would not support them both, he sold it, am+ giving hts wile a small share or the purchase-money, he embarked for Ostend, o h e r e he stopped som e t u ne. During his absence, his wite expended her small piriance, rind became a. prosti!nte. A short time since, she was surptiied by the arrival of her hnsbal.4.l at her lodging,s, to whom she communicated her way of life, and on bring pottered a portion of the wag es o f hi s wife's infamy, it is said be piotessed binpsell well satisfied with ber conduct. They accordingly again cohabited With each other, but he ill-treated her. MOST HORRIBLE Muttout.--We hare received the following account of the barbarous 'Murder of a new-born bastard child by its mother, at Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, on Friday Oct. 2 : " A woman of Dunstable observing a great smoke proceeding from het neighbour's chimney, sent her daughter to inquite the cause; a person said she was locked in the room, where the smoke proceeded from, and could not get out, as she could not find the key of the door ; the girl informed her mother, and upon procuring assist ance, broke the door open, and found a female about 22 years of age, in the act of burning the pieces of flesh of her new-born illegiti m at e citilcl the entrails were constsmed previous to breaking the door open. The skull was lying by the side of the barbarous mother, divided into four parrs: the body, arms, awl legs, were cut in pieces of about three inches, for the purpose of consuming in the flames. It appeared that the mother beat the intant's brains out against the post of the bedstead, and then proceeded to dissect the hfidy, A Coroner's fives( sat ,on Saturday Idlt, anti re turned a verdict of •‘ Wilful Murder" mother, Hannah &Then, a native of Duitstable, and who was holly committed to take her Ilia! at the ensuing Bedford Assizes." SUDDEN DRATHS.----A1) awful instance of sudden death occurred on Saturday in Little Dr - my-lane. Mr. Thomas Parker, beadle of the parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, after bring out in the morning, returned home to breakfast, bringing in with him some hot rolls. He drshed his wife to prepare some coffee and have it ready, and that he would be in to breakfast in a few minutes. He aent out in perfect health, and fell iii the street in an apo plectic fit, and was carried home senseless. Dr. Donahue of the Adelphi, Surgeon Stanton of the Strand, and Surgeon Langley of Newcastle -street. were immediately called to his assistance, who used every remedy to recover him without effect. 'f hire were no fewer than four persons canvissing for the office in less than an hour after his detti. —A few evenings ago, Mr. Ddwson, oracle of Billingsgate Vard, tell down in the street in a bimilar ►unntrer, and exiiired almost immediately,